LINGUIST List 16.950

Tue Mar 29 2005

Jobs: Psycholinguistics: Senior Test Developer, Texas

Editor for this issue: Vanessa Manion <vanessalinguistlist.org>

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This position is located in Menlo Park, California working for the Ordinate Corporation, a Harcourt Assessment, Inc. company. Relocation assistance can and/or will be provided to the incumbent.

Ordinate Corporation, located in Menlo Park, California, is the world's only company providing automated spoken language testing, including reading tests for children and other speech diagnostic tools. Using our own speech recognition technologies, we provide services that extract information such as language proficiency (comprehension, fluency, pronunciation, sentence structure, vocabulary) over the telephone or via the Internet. Our system is used by educational institutions to test incoming students, by companies to pre-screen employees for spoken language abilities, and by the US Department of Education and other government agencies for widespread language proficiency testing. We are committed to developing systems and instruments that use new technologies to create the most accurate and efficient language assessments available.

Ordinate provides the fun atmosphere of a small, growing company where there is freedom to learn, expand, and make an impact. We're located one minute's walk from the CalTrain station and downtown Menlo Park's restaurants and cafes.

The Senior Test developers are responsible for designing reliable and valid language performance assessments based on theories in linguistics and psychology, and informed by and understanding of automatic speech recognition.